Kevin Systrom Quotes
I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
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It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!
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'I’m from out of town,' he said breezily. This was true. He’d never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
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We take the same line as the United States: the austerity policies need to be accompanied by greater flexibility to stimulate growth.
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Societies in which men were unwilling to dispose of themselves in war were societies that usually got disposed of. Societies that were protected were protected by killers, which is why I call the traditional role of men the role of killer-protector.
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lines 510–524, as translated by R. Potter (1860)
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A lex icon.
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Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.
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Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of "democracy."
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
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I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.
